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by mtgx 8y ago
This sounds like a good thing overall, considering most OEMs can't even be bothered to update devices for Spectre that are older than 2 years. However, I can't help but think that this is yet another thing on NSA/FBI's w
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by mtgx 8y ago
I think they were supposed to show a prototype by now, but obviously that hasn't happened yet.
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by mtgx 8y ago
First it's optional, and then it won't be. Do people from UK realize that the government, intelligence agencies, and the police see no end in sight for this type of (ab)use of surveillance and censorship technology? To me at least
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by mtgx 8y ago
It hasn't. Otherwise it wouldn't have developed a mobile Edge browser (also based on Chromium), and other mobile apps for Android and iOS.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Say the people who passed the law.
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by mtgx 8y ago
I think doing this points to a dysfunctional system. You're betting that your company's financials and stock price will improve, so you get debt to buy back the stock. It's no different than an individual getting into debt
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by mtgx 8y ago
And what makes you think that the checks and balances you have now are "the right amount"? Does it feel that way to you right now or in the past few decades?
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by mtgx 8y ago
What's your HbA1C level? https://www.hindustantimes.com/columns/that-acne-could-be-a-... https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/fullarticle... https://www.ncbi.nlm.n
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by mtgx 8y ago
Movidius targets sub-1w. I haven't read the article but I assume this needs at least an order of magnitude more power.
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by mtgx 8y ago
It's called "making the haystack bigger" in relation to finding the needle in the haystack. In other words mass surveillance increases the noise rather than the signal, which we've always know it does. The government jus
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by mtgx 8y ago
Remember this article the next time the FBI argues for "more data access". The FBI is already allowed to eat the fruit of the poisonous tree on a daily basis thanks to its expansive surveillance powers, and the vast majority of ju
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by mtgx 8y ago
How else would the people proposing and working on these things internally get promotions?
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by mtgx 8y ago
It also seems to symbolize Google's real new mission statement , changed from "Organizing the world's information" to "Collecting all of your information*, whether they publicly admit to it or not.
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by mtgx 8y ago
As I said when the Yahoo data breach was uncovered, Verizon was should've reduced the acquisition deal by billions or even scrap it altogether. Instead they only reduced it by $350 million from $4.8 billion. Dumb. Either way, I'
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by mtgx 8y ago
Arm has already announced crypto-processors, which I assume aren't very expensive. Every chip maker could use one as an HSM now. https://developer.arm.com/products/system-ip/security-ip/cry... https:&#x
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by mtgx 8y ago
> Facebook's claiming that it is not selling user data is like a bar’s giving away a free martini with every $12 bag of peanuts and then claiming that it’s not selling drinks. Rich user data is Facebook’s most prized possession, an
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by mtgx 8y ago
FastMail was never a "secure email service provider" - just an email provider that offer a good (UX-wise) alternative to Gmail, without mining your private conversations for advertising purposes. I think they made it pretty clear
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by mtgx 8y ago
> save unsaved entries to a temp file when the OS reboots. What Microsoft's executives likely took from that: "Save unsaved entries to a Microsoft account document. Got it!" > A recent files list would also be an improv
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by mtgx 8y ago
I can't believe someone actually bought that line. It's an obvious soundbite to make people ignore what they did, just like when they say "we did it for the children." We don't need to "reserve judgement until
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by mtgx 8y ago
I saw that, but it's not nearly enough. Why isn't the report made public? Why do we have to take Super Micro's word for it? I seem to remember a very hostile and skeptical attitude from HN against Binance doing exactly this s
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by mtgx 8y ago
The companies/shareholders being affected by this are free to sue the paper over defamation. Something tells me they won't.
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by mtgx 8y ago
What bothers me most about this article is that it's based around what "Super Micro says" -- why would I care about what Supermicro says? They are the ones being accused of having backdoors in their chips. I would've lik
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by mtgx 8y ago
It's not particularly about security and privacy, but this would also be a step in that direction: > Warren wants to eliminate the huge financial incentives that entice CEOs to flush cash out to shareholders rather than reinvest in
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by mtgx 8y ago
In related news, Qualcomm seems to be shutting down its Centriq division, which China announces its own similar chips. Coincidence? https://www.theinformation.com/articles/qualcomm-lays-off-26... ? https://ww
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by mtgx 8y ago
In the EU, there is this legal concept of "informed consent" that was implemented in the GDPR. It hasn't been tested much in court yet, but the theory is that users should actually understand what the "deal" between
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by mtgx 8y ago
It's not like GCHQ wasn't hacking networks before. The law just says they need to disclose it now, so they use the encryption as an "excuse" to do it, while also making encryption look bad (something we ought to get rid
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by mtgx 8y ago
An inferior product can win because this inferior product you talked about had already won by the time this superior product came along. Microsoft just didn't want to admit it.
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by mtgx 8y ago
This kind of wishful thinking by people who dont realize there will always a human controlling that AI.
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by mtgx 8y ago
AI tends to "over-optimize" as we know from the paper clip theory too. It's likely to make booms and busts even more drastic.
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by mtgx 8y ago
Worse than that. They sit on hundreds of billions of dollars but still borrow money in the tens of billions thanks to fed's still very low interest rate. If that's not systemic issue I don't know what is.

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